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experiencer

experiencer noun: a person who experiences.

Noun

experiencer (plural experiencers)

  1. A person who experiences.
  2. A person who has had a close encounter.
    • So after the first few emails with certain of them, I got an introduction from an experiencer to a person who I met at a conference, which was an American Academy of Religion conference. […] And I got insight into the lives that they led, and I became convinced that the government was definitely...2025 July 24, Ross Douthat, quoting Diana Walsh Pasulka, “What if the Government Believes in U.F.O.s More Than You Do?”, in The New York Times
  3. A thematic relation where something undergoes a situation or sensation lacking a semantic agent.
    • The subjects of the intransitive verbs "fall" and "burn" are experiencers.

Forms of experiencer

pluralexperiencers

Origin of experiencer

From experience + -er.

Words formed from experiencer

Questions about experiencer

What does experiencer mean?
Experiencer means a person who experiences.
What part of speech is experiencer?
Experiencer is a noun.
What is the plural of experiencer?
The plural of experiencer is experiencers.

Words near experiencer in the dictionary

  1. experienced
  2. experiencedly
  3. experiencedness
  4. experienceless
  5. experiencelessness
  6. experiencer
  7. experiencers
  8. experiences
  9. experiencewise
  10. experiencible
  11. experiencing

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